Security Architect, AI & Data Platform — Equity Options

AI71; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 367,000 - 661,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity options

Benefits

Job summary

AI71 is hiring a Security Architect to define and lead the security architecture of our AI and data platform. You will implement secure-by-design principles across cloud-native infrastructure, AI workloads, and data pipelines, ensuring strict confidentiality, integrity, and availability at scale.

You will drive Zero Trust, IAM, and cryptography controls, partner with engineering and AI teams, and mentor engineers to foster a security-first culture across the organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in security engineering or architecture.
• Experience designing security for distributed systems and cloud-native platforms.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust, IAM, cryptography, and secure communications.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices and secure CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the end-to-end security architecture for AI systems, data platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Establish and enforce Zero Trust principles, including identity-first security, mTLS, and RBAC/ABAC.
• Design secure patterns for distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and multi-tenant environments.
• Lead threat modeling, architecture reviews, and security validations.
• Define requirements for security observability, including audit logging and anomaly detection.

Skills

Zero Trust

IAM

Cryptography

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or Cybersecurity

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Job description

AI71 is hiring a Security Architect to define and lead the security architecture of our AI and data platform. You will implement secure-by-design principles across cloud-native infrastructure, AI workloads, and data pipelines, ensuring strict confidentiality, integrity, and availability at scale.

You will drive Zero Trust, IAM, and cryptography controls, partner with engineering and AI teams, and mentor engineers to foster a security-first culture across the organization.